Read the excerpt from Act I of Hamlet.Hamlet: What hour now? Horatio: I think it lacks of twelve. Marcellus: No, it is struck.

Horatio says the hour “lacks of twelve,” meaning it is still short of twelve and has not reached that hour yet. So he thinks it is before twelve, which matches choice D. Marcellus disagrees, saying the clock has struck twelve.

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